by Jeff Crouere, ©2021
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(Sep. 26, 2021) — In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was unleashed on the world from China. The evidence is now growing that the bioweapons laboratory in Wuhan, China was the original source of the virus. If this theory is true, the virus was either accidentally or intentionally released on an unsuspecting world.
Of course, the government of communist China is not cooperating with an investigation into the origins of COVID-19, so the world may never know the truth. The mere fact that China is blocking this investigation should lead everyone to question what China is trying to hide.
The pandemic has killed over 700,000 people in the United States and over 4.7 million people worldwide. The economic costs in this country have been staggering. Millions of jobs that were lost may never return.
In China, it is a much different situation. According to the World Health Organization, less than 6,000 people have died from the virus in China. Their economy has prospered as their products have continually been shipped to “big box” retailers like Walmart.
In the United States, these large retailers, which are heavily dependent on Chinese goods, never closed. In contrast, American small businesses were closed during the pandemic lockdown. Sadly, many of these small businesses, the backbone of the American economy, will never reopen.
China benefited in another important way from the pandemic. Until early 2020, President Donald Trump was a thorn in China’s side. Throughout his campaign and presidency, Trump warned of the Chinese threat to the American economy. He spent his entire administration working to bring home American factories from China. He also significantly raised tariffs on Chinese goods. His goal was to improve our economy by increasing the number of American jobs and boosting American manufacturing.
The Chinese hated the losses being inflicted by the Trump administration. However, this all changed once the pandemic started to dominate media headlines in the United States. The pandemic led to a new voting model in the 2020 election. There was a massive expansion of mail-in voting, which was pushed throughout the country because of the fear of COVID-19 and supposed dangers of in-person voting. In a Pew Research study, it was determined that an astounding 46%% of all votes cast in the 2020 election were mail-in or absentee ballots.
Of these votes, the vast majority supported Joe Biden for President. In just the state of Pennsylvania, it was determined that 75% of the mail-in votes were cast for Biden. With this type of election model, it is no surprise that Biden won the presidency. While the outcome has been hotly disputed by Trump and millions of his supporters, nothing has been overturned and Biden has been able to implement key components of his far-left agenda.
China has benefited tremendously by Trump leaving the presidency. Under Biden, China has a “friend” in the White House. Not only is Biden considering easing the Trump tariffs, but he is also not too concerned about human rights abuses in China.
In his recent speech to the United Nations. Biden did not mention China at all. He could have denounced how China brutally eliminated the freedom movement in Hong Kong and imprisoned the courageous leaders challenging the communist government. He could have advocated for the people of Tibet, who have faced severe repression by the communist Chinese for decades. In addition, he could have condemned what many consider to be genocide practiced by the Chinese against the Muslim Uighur community.
Many Biden critics claim that the reason Biden refused to condemn China was that his son, Hunter Biden, has longstanding and lucrative financial deals with business entities in the communist mainland.
Whatever the reason, Biden’s silence may only encourage more Chinese aggression toward their favorite target, Taiwan, otherwise known as “Free China.” After the humiliating withdrawal of American military forces from Afghanistan and the continued presence of American hostages in that country, the Chinese have become more emboldened and have escalated their threatening behavior against Taiwan.
China has conducted “assault drills” near Taiwan and on Thursday sent two dozen military aircraft to penetrate the island’s air defense zone. This is just the latest example of Chinese aircraft entering Taiwanese airspace, which has been happening quite frequently over the last few weeks.
The Chinese goal is likely to either invade Taiwan or encourage the capitulation of the country without firing a shot. What has been the response of the United States to these multiple Chinese provocations? Absolutely nothing, even though we have a “security partnership” with Taiwan.
With the Biden administration intent on purging Trump supporters from the military and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, supporting the teaching of “Critical Race Theory” at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, the United States does not seem to be ready to challenge China, which is the largest military in the world. China has 2.8 million people serving in their military forces, approximately twice the number of American service members.
Despite our economic ties, the Chinese are a formidable enemy. What will we do if they invade Taiwan? Many analysts believe that the Chinese will act quickly while our country is still reeling from the debacle in Afghanistan.
Sadly, our leadership team at the White House is uninspiring to say the least. While Biden has refused to confront China, Milley has made questionable contacts with them. In the new book, Peril, Milley is reported to have contacted his Chinese military counterpart to assure them that Trump was not planning military action against them. He also promised to give them advance notice if any military attack was imminent.
As China eyes Taiwan and threatens this democracy, the brutal communist dictators of the country must be reassured that the United States is in a weakened state and has horrible leadership.
If ever China was to make a move, now might be the time. We must not be unprepared as we were in Afghanistan. The implications for national security are too enormous.
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Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and his award winning program, “Ringside Politics,” airs nationally on Real America’s Voice Network, AmericasVoice.News weekdays at 7 a.m. CT and from 7-11 a.m. weekdays on WGSO 990-AM & Wgso.com. He is a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and on Crouere.net. For more information, email him at jeff@ringsidepolitics.com
China’a Peoples Liberation Army predicts that if they went to war with Taiwan, the PLA would start their campaign with relentless missile attacks. The PLA would fire a continuous barrage of missiles lasting until the PLA’s invasion of the island begins. Rockets and missiles would be launched at the Taiwanese coast, airfields, communication hubs, radar equipment, transportation nodes, and government offices. Chinese agents would penetrate Taiwan’s leadership and assassinate the president and her Cabinet, leaders of the Democratic Progressive Party, officials at key bureaucracies, prominent media personalities, scientists and engineers, and their families.
The main PLA goal would be to destroy the Taiwanese Air Force on the ground and give China total control of the air. With the Taiwan president dead, the remaining leadership mute, communications down, and transportation impossible, the Taiwanese forces would be left leaderless, demoralized, and disorientated. This “shock and awe” campaign would clear the way for the Chinese invasion, the largest amphibious offensive in history. Thousands of ships would be needed and commandeered by the PLA from the Chinese merchant marine, to deliver one million Chinese soldiers and supplies across the Taiwan Strait. The invasion would occur in two waves. The landing troop would be preceded by bombardment on military positions by missiles and rockets, launched from the Rocket Forces at Fujian. Chinese fighter bombers flying over the strait would attack positions from the air and provide invasion fleet security escort.
Overwhelmed! Taiwanese who survived would soon run out of supplies and abandon the beaches. Once a Chinese beachhead was secured, the process would begin again: With air superiority, the PLA would pick and choose their targets, Taiwanese command and control would be isolated and destroyed. The Taiwanese would be swept aside by the Chinese advance. Within a week, they would march into Taipei; and within two weeks they would instigate martial law intended to convert the island into a forward operating base that the PLA would use to defend against an expected Japanese and American counter-campaigns.
However, “the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” Taiwan is not a toothless tiger.
Fog is a major operational problem in the Taiwan Strait from about Feb. 15 to June 15. The worst fog occurs during the morning hours of April and May. Overall, the average visibility is 1.2 miles in spring, 2.4 miles in winter, and 6.2 miles in summer.
The wind and wave conditions are very high in early March and become very low by the end of the month. By October, that condition is reversed. Currents in the strait are stronger in summer and weaker in winter.
A Taiwanese defeat two weeks after the war begins is not guaranteed. An attacking force always wants is the element of surprise. But the PLA would not have that because of the poor weather during most of the year.
An invasion fleet could only safely cross the strait in one of two four-week timeframes in April and or October. The invasion fleet would be large thus making tactical surprise impossible.
Taiwanese, American, and Japanese intelligence services would know when the PLA was preparing for invasion two months before it occurred. They would know more than a month before hand, when the first missiles would be fired. The Taiwanese would have time to move command and control to hardened tunnels built inside the island’s mountain range, move their fleet away from vulnerable ports, arrest PLA agents, fill the surrounding ocean with sea mines, disperse and camouflage army units across the country, put the economy on war footing, and distribute weapons to Taiwan’s 2.5 million reservists.
Only 13 beaches on Taiwan’s western coastline could handle the PLA invasion fleet. Each is known and has been defensively prepared. Taiwan has many hardened underground tunnels, complete with supply depots crisscrossing the landing beaches. Defensive beach berms would be covered with razor-leaf plants. Chemical treatment plants are common in many beach towns, meaning that Chinese soldiers would be exposed to clouds of toxic gas which their saturation bombing released.
As war nears, each beach would be transformed into murderous killing zones. The routes from the beaches to the capital city would be thoroughly mapped, and each step of that journey would be prepared with booby-trapse and landmines. Skyscrapers and rock outcrops would have cables strung between them to entangle aircraft; tunnels, bridges, and overpasses would be engineered with high explosives; and buildings in Taiwan’s urban core would be turned into fortified redoubt intended to funnel Chinese soldier into bloody prolonged fire fights over every city block.
The young inexperienced Chinese soldiers were rushed through a three-week course on amphibious warfare before the invasion. But nothing they have done would prepared them for the Hell they would face.
Some of the invasion fleet would have been sunk by Taiwanese submarine torpedoes. Airborne Harpoon missiles, fired by F-16 Vipers flying from deep, bomb-proof mountain bunkers would destroy all that they could. However, most of the PLA losses would be caused by sea mines. Layered minefield, one after the other, must be crossed by the ships in the convoys. Some fields would be eight miles in width. The soldiers would suffer from seasickness due to the strait’s rough seas; they can do nothing but hope their ship safely makes it across.
As they approaches land, the pressure would increase. The first craft to cross the shore would be met with a wall of flames leaping from the water, caused by petroleum pipelines on the ocean floor. As his ship gets past the fire, other ships would entangled by sea traps. The soldier exit the ship and confront a mile of “razor wire nets, hook boards, skin-peeling planks, barbed wire fences, wire obstacles, spike strips, landmines, anti-tank barrier walls, anti-tank obstacles … bamboo spikes, felled trees, truck shipping containers, and junk cars.”
Their safety depends on the PLA Air Force’s ability to differentiate real artillery from hundreds of decoys and phony equipment the PLA believes the Taiwanese Army has created.
But if the young soldiers live through the opening barrages on the beach, they must fight their way through the main Taiwanese Army groups, 2.5 million armed reservists scattered across the cities and dense jungles and miles of land mines, booby traps, and debris. This is an immense thing to ask of young soldier farm boys who have no experience with war.
American military experts use terms like “mature precision-strike regime” and “anti-access and area denial warfare” to describe technological tendencies that make it tricky to project naval and airpower near enemy shores. Costs favor the defense: It is cheaper to build a missile than to build a ship.
The Chinese military can respond to U.S. force projection at a fraction of America’s costs, it means the democracies straddling the East Asian rim can deter Chinese aggression at a fraction of the PLA’s costs. In an era that favors defense, small nations like Taiwan do not need a PLA-sized military to keep the Chinese at bay.
The Taiwanese Army believes it can hold back the PLA, for at least two weeks after invasion. The PLA believes that if it can’t defeat Taiwan in under two weeks, it will lose the war! The disparity between the military budgets on each side of the strait is great but the Taiwanese do not need equivalence to deter the PLA. They just need the arms that make invasion unthinkable.
During my 78 years of life, no other U.S. President has “given Aid and Comfort” to the enemy like Joe Biden has. Additionally, he has “given Aid and Comfort” to more than just one enemy — China, Russia, the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
That is Treason, the first impeachable offense mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. And, since it’s Treason four times over, the punishment should be death.
Additionally, there is evidence now in the public domain that Joe Biden, in his capacity as Vice-President or President, directly or indirectly via his son Hunter, received $Million$ in bribes from officials of foreign governments in exchange for actions favorable to those officials or foreign governments. Bribery is the second impeachable offense mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.
Now is the time for “We the people” to decide if the U.S. Constitution is relevant or not.